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BY    THE    SUPERINTENDENT    OF    PUBLIC    INSTRUCTION 
I'XDER  AUTFIORITY  OP  THE  DOCUMENT   EDITOR.      FOR  USE 
OF   SCHOOL   BOARDS    AND    SCHOOL   OFFICERS. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  LAWS. 

Volumes  bound  in  paper  covers  shall  be  furnished  to  each  school 
director  to  be  turned  over  by  the  director  to  his  successor  in  office. 
See  section  2624. 

Each  school  officer,  upon  the  termination  of  his  term  of  office  shall 
immediately  surrender  to  his  successor  all  books,  papers  and  moneys 
pertaining  or  belonging  to  the  office,  taking  a  receipt  therefor.  See 
section  2770. 

To  aid  in  the  proper  administration  of  the  law  concerning  public 
schools,  we  publish  herein  the  new  laws  and  amendments  of  the  Thir- 
ty-seventh General  Assembly. 

A.  M.  DEYOE, 
May  28,  1917.  ;Sup,erJntan^ent  ci  Public  Instruction. 


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SUPERINTENDENT  OP  PUBLIC  INSTRUCTION— ELECTIVE. 

OH.    318—37    G.    A. 
SKNATE  FILE  494. 

Section  1.  That  the  office  of  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
is  hereby  made  elective,  and  the  election  of  said  officer  shall  be  sub- 
mitted to  the  qualified  voters  of  Iowa  at  the  general  election  of  1918 
and  every  four  years  thereafter.  The  term  of  such  officer  so  elected 
shall  commence  at  the  expiration  of  the  Superintendent  of  Public  In- 
struction now  in  office,  and  continue  until  his  successor  is  elected  and 
qualified. 

Sec.  2.  Section  twenty-six  hundred  twenty-seven-a  (2627-a)  supple- 
ment to  the  code,  1913,  and  all  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  here- 
with are  hereby  repealed. 

COMBINATION  OF  SCHOOL  FUNDS. 
CH.    386  -37    G.    A. 

HOUSE  FILE  No.  565. 

Section  1.  That  the  law  as  it  appears  in  section  twenty-seven  hun- 
dred thirty-three  la  (2733-la),  supplemental  supplement  to  the  code, 
1915,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  by  striking  from  line  nine- 
teen (19)  thereof  the  words  "and  the  average  proportion  of  contingent 
expenses"  and  by  striking  from  line  twenty-two  (22)  thereof  the  words 
"out  of  the  teachers'  fund  and  the  contingent  fund  or". 

Sec.  2.  That  the  law  as  it  appears  in  section  twenty-seven  hundred 
forty-nine  (2749)  of  the  code  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  by 
striking  out  the  words  "teachers'  or  contingent"  in  line  twelve  (12) 
and  substituting  in  lieu  thereof  the  word  "general". 

Sec.  3.  That  the  law  as  it  appears  in  section  twenty-seven  hundred 
sixty-seven  (2767)  of  the  code  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  by 
striking  out  the  words  "contingent  and  teachers"  in  line  two  (2)  and 
substituting  in  lieu  thereof  the  wopd  "general". 

Sec.  4.  That  the  law  as  it  appears  in  section  twenty-seven  hundred 
sixty-eight  (2768),  supplement  to  the  code,  1913,  be  and  the  same  is 
hereby  amended  by  striking  therefrom  lines  seven  (7),  eight  (8),  nine 
(9),  ten  (10)  and  eleven  (11)  and  inserting  in  lieu  thereof  the  follow- 
ing: "The  money  collected  by  tax  voted  or  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of 
bonds  valid  for  the  purpose  of  building  schoolhouses  shall  be  called 
the  schoolhouse  fund,  and  all  other  moneys  received  for  any  other 
purpose  shall  be  called  the  general  fund,"  also  by  striking  out  the 
word  "contingent"  in  line  twenty-three  (23)  and  substituting  in  lieu 
thereof  the  word  "general". 

Sec.  5.  That  the  law  as  it  appears  in  section  twenty-seven  hundred 
sixty-nine  (2769),  supplement  to  the  code,  1913,  be  and  the  same  is 
hereby  amended  by  striking  from  line  five  (5)  the  words  "teachers' 
fund,  the  contingent"  and  substituting  in  lieu  thereof  the  word  "gen- 
eral". "'  : 


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Sec.  6.  That  the  law  as  it  appears  in  section  twenty-seven  hundred 
seventy -four  (2774)  of  the  code  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  by 
striking  from  line  twelve  (12)  the  word  "contingent"  and  substituting 
in  lieu  thereof  the  word  "general",  by  striking  from  line  eight  (8) 
the  word  "teachers"  and  substituting  in  lieu  thereof  the  word  "gen- 
eral". 

Sec.  7.  That  the  law  as  it  appears  in  section  twenty-seven  hundred 
eighty-three  (2783),  supplement  to  the  code,  1913,  be  and  the  same  is 
hereby  amended  by  striking  from  line  two  (2)  the  word  "contingent" 
and  substituting  in  lieu  thereof  the  word  "general",  also  by  striking 
from  line  ten  (10)  the  word  "contingent"  and  substituting  in  lieu 
thereof  the  word  "general". 

Sec.  8.  That  the  law  as  it  appears  in  section  twenty-eight  hundred 
three  (2803)  of  the  code  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  by 
striking  from  lines  twelve  (12)  and  thirteen  (13)  the  words  -"and  an 
average  proportion  of  contingent  expenses". 

Sec.  9.  That  the  law  as  it  appears  in  section  twenty-eight  hundred 
six  (2806),  supplement  to  the  code,  1913,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby 
amended  by  striking  out  the  following  as  it  appears  in  lines  four  (4), 
five  (5),  six  (6),  seven  (7),  eight  (8),  nine  (9),  ten  (10),  eleven  (11), 
twelve  (12)  and  thirteen  (13):  "estimate  the  amount  required  for  the 
contingent  fund,  not  exceeding  ten  dollars  for  each  person  of  school 
age,  but  each  school  corporation  may  estimate  not  exceeding  seventy- 
five  dollars  for  each  school  thereof,  and  such  additional  sum  as  may  be 
necessary  not  exceeding  five  dollars  for  each  person  of  school  age  for 
transporting  children  to  and  from  school;  and  also  such  additional 
sum  as  may  be  authorized  in  the  chapter  on-  uniformity  of  text-books; 
also  such  sum  as  may  be  required  for  the  teachers'  fund,  which  shall 
not  exceed  thirty  dollars  for  each  person  of  school  age  therein,  but 
each  corporation  may  estimate  not  exceeding  two  hundred  seventy 
dollars,  for  each  regular  school  therein",  and  inserting  in  lieu  thereof 
the  following:  "estimate  the  amount  required  for  the  general  fund, 
not  exceeding  forty  dollars  for  each  pupil  of  school  age,  but  each 
school  corporation  may  estimate  not  to  exceed  five  hundred  twenty- 
five  dollars  for  each  school  thereof,  and  such  additional  suinu  as  may 
l:e  necessary  not  exceeding  five  dollars  for  each  person  of  school  age 
for  transporting  children  to  and  from  schools;  also  such  additional 
sum  as  may  be  authorized  in  section  twenty-eight  hundred  twenty-five 
of  the  code." 

Sec.  10.  That  the  law  as  it  appears  in  section  twenty-eight  hundred 
twenty-five  of  the  code  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  by  striking 
out  the  word  "contingent"  in  line  three  (3)  thereof  and  substituting 
the  word  "general",  also  by  striking  out  the  word  "contingent"  in  line 
five  (5)  thereof  and  substituting  the  word  "general". 

Sec.  11.  All  funds  on  hand  in  the  schoolhouse  bond  fund  at  the  time 
of  the  taking  effect  of  this  act  shall  be  transferred  to  the  schoolhouse 
fund  and  all  funds  on  hand  in  the  teachers'  fund  and  contingent  fund 
on  said  date  shall  be  transferred  to  the  general  fund  of  such  corpora- 
tion. 


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FINANCIAL  STATEMENT  OF  SCHOOL  DISTRICTS. 

CH.    223—37    G.   A. 
HOUSE  FILE  No.  412. 

That  section  two  thousand  seven  hundred  eighty-one  (2781)  of  the 
code,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  by  inserting  after  the  word 
"district"  in  line  two,  the  words,  "independent  school  district  or  school 
township." 

LAW  FOR  THE  PROMOTION  OF  EDUCATION  IN  AGRICULTURE, 
TRADES  AND  INDUSTRIES. 

CH.    300—37    G.    A. 

HOUSE  FILE  No.  446. 

Section  1.  That  the  provisions  of  the  Act  of  Congress,  enacted  by 
the  sixty-fifth  congress  at  the  second  session  thereof,  entitled  an  "act 
to  provide  for  the  promotion  of  vocational  education;  to  provide  for 
co-operation  with  the  states  in  the  promotion  of  such  education  in  agri- 
culture and  the  trades  and  industries;  to  provide  for  co-operation  with 
the  states  in  the  preparation  of  teachers  of  vocational  subjects;  and 
to  appropriate  money  and  regulate  its  expenditure",  and  approved  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1917,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  accepted. 

Sec.  2  That  the  benefits  of  all  funds  appropriated  under  the  provi- 
sions of  such  act  are  hereby  accepted  as  provided  in  such  act. 

Sec.  3.  That  the  state  board  for  vocational  education  is  hereby 
designated  as  the  state  board  as  provided  in  such  act,  is  charged  with 
the  duty  and  responsibility  of  co-operating  with  the  Federal  Board 
for  Vocational  Education  in  the  administration  of  such  act;  and  is 
given  all  power  necessary  to  such  co-operation. 

Sec.  4.  That  such  state  board  is  hereby  authorized  to  make  such 
expenditures  for  the  salaries  of  assistants  and  for  such  office  and 
other  expenses  as  such  state  board  may  deem  necessary  to  the  proper 
administration  of  the  funds  allotted  to  the  state  of  Iowa  under  the 
ministration  of  the  funds  allotted  to  the  state  of  Iowa  under  the 
provisions  of  such  act. 

Sec.  5.  That  the  state  treasurer  is  appointed  as  custodian  of  funds 
for  vocational  education,  as  provided  in  such  act;  and  is  charged  with 
the  duty  and  responsibility  of  receiving  and  providing  for  the  proper 
custody  and  for  the  proper  disbursements  on  vouchers  drawn  by  such 
state  board,  of  moneys  paid  to  the  state  from  the  appropriations  made 
under  the  provisions  of  such  act. 

Sec.  6.  That  the  state  treasurer  as  custodian  of  funds  for  vocational 
education  shall  make  to  the  general  assembly,  at  each  biennial  session 
thereof,  a  report  of  the  receipts  and  disbursements  of  moneys  received 
by  him  under  the  provisions  of  such  act  and  such  state  board  shall 
make  to  the  general  assembly  at  each  biennial  session  thereof  a  report 
of  its  administration  of  such  act,  and  the  expenditures  of  money 
allotted  to  the  state  under  the  provisions  of  such  act. 


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Sec.  7.  This  act  being  deemed  of  immediate  importance  shall  be  in 
effect  on  and  after  its  publication  in  the  Des  Moines  Register,  and  the 
Des  Moines  Capital,  newspapers  published  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa. 

STATE  BOARD  OF  VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION. 

CH.   290—37  G.  A. 
HOUSE  FILE  No.  445. 

Section  1.  That  the  following  words  and  phrases  as  used  in  this  act 
shall  have  the  following  meanings: 

1.  "Approved  school,  department  or  class"  shall  mean  a  school,  de- 
partment or  class  approved  by  the  state  board  for  vocational  education 
as  entitled  under  the  provisions  of  this  act  to  federal  moneys  for  the 
salaries  of  teachers  of  vocational  subjects. 

2.  "Approved  teachers'  training  school,  department  or  class"  shall 
mean  a  school,  department  or  class  approved  by  the  state  board  for 
vocational  education  as  entitled  under  the  provisions  of  this  act  to 
federal  moneys  for  the  training  of  teachers  of  vocational  subjects. 
Sec.  2.    That  a  state  board  to  be  known  as  the  state  board  for  voca- 
tional education  is  hereby  created.     Such  state  board  for  vocational 
education  shall  consist  of  three  members  as  follows:     The  state  super- 
intendent of  public  instruction,  'who  shall  be  chairman,  the  President  of 
the  State  Board  of  Education,  and  the  Commissioner  of  the  bureau  of 
labor  statistics. 

Sec.  3.  That  such  state  board  shall  have  the  duty  and  be  given  all 
necessary  power  to  provide  for  making  studies  and  investigations  re- 
lating to  prevocational  and  vocational  training  in  agricultural,  indus- 
trial, hoime  economics  and  commercial  subjects;  to  promote  and  aid  in 
the  establishment  of  local  communities  of  public  schools,  departments 
and  classes  giving  instruction  in  such  subjects;  to  co-operate  with  local 
communities  in  the  maintenance  of  such  schools,  departments  and 
classes;  to  establish  standards  for,  test  the  qualifications  of,  and  to 
certificate  teachers  of  such  subjects  in  such  approved  schools,  depart- 
ments and  classes;  and  to  co-operate  in  the  maintenance  of  teachers' 
training  schools,  departments  and  classes  supported  and  controlled  by 
the  public  for  the  training  of  teachers  and  supervisors  of  such  subjects. 

Sec.  4.  That  such  state  board  shall  appoint  a  committee  to  be  known 
as  the  state  advisory  committee  for  vocational  education,  consisting  of 
nine  members ;  three  of  these  members  to  serve  for  one  year,  three  for 
two  years,  and  three  for  three  years,  and  all  members  thereafter  for 
three  years  each,  The  membership  of  such  state  advisory  committee 
shall  consist  of  one  member  experienced  in  agriculture,  one  employer, 
one  representative  of  labor,  one  woman  experienced  in  woman's  work, 
one  person  experienced  in  business  and  commerce,  one  person  of  ex- 
perience in  social  work,  and  three  educators.  Such  state  advisory  com- 
mittee shall  meet  in  conference  with  such  state  board  at  least  two  times 
a  year  and  at  such  other  times  as  such  state  board  shall  deem  advisable 
and  shall  have  the  duty  and  responsibility  of  giving  advice  and  sug- 


gestions  to  such  state  board  concerning  prevocational  and  vocational 
education,  the  training  of  teachers  of  agriculture,  industrial,  household 
arts  and  commercial  subjects,  and  the  administration  of  this  act.  The 
members  of  such  state  advisory  committee  shall  be  reimbursed  for  their 
actual  expenses  incurred  in  attending  such  conference. 

Sec.  5.  That  in  order  to  meet  the  requirements  that  for  each  dollar 
of  Federal  money  expended  for  the  salaries  of  teachers  in  approved 
schools,  departments  and  classes,  the  local  community  must  expend  an 
amount  equal  to  the  amount  of  Federal  money  which  it  receives  for 
the  same  purpose  for  the  same  year. 

Sec.  6.  That  such  board  shall  establish  standards  and  annually  in- 
spect, as  a  basis  of  approval,  all  schools,  departments  and  classes  ap- 
plying for  Federal  moneys  for  instruction  in  agriculture,  industrial, 
home  economics  and  commercial  subjects  under  the  provisions  of  this 
act;  and  all  teachers'  training  schools,  departments  and  classes  apply- 
ing for  Federal  moneys  for  the  training  of  teachers  and  supervisors  of 
said  subjects.  Approved  schools,  departments  and  classes  shall  be  entitled 
under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  to  Federal  imkmeys,  and  approved 
teachers'  training  schools,  departments  and  classes  shall  be  entitled  to 
such  Federal  moneys,  so  long  as  they  are  approved  by  such  board  as  to 
site,  plant,  equipment,  number  and  qualification  of  teachers,  employ- 
ment of  teachers,  admission  and  number  of  pupils,  courses  of  study, 
methods  of  instruction  and  expenditure  of  money.  All  disbursements  of 
Federal  moneys  to  such  approved  schools,  departments,  and  classes  and 
to  such  approved  teachers'  training  schools,  departments  and  classes 
shall  be  made  by  the  state  treasurer  on  the  requisition  of  such  state 
board. 

Sec.  7.  That  the  state  superintendent  of  public  instruction  shall  be 
the  executive  officer  of  such  state  board  for  the  administration  of  this 
act.  He  shall,  with  the  approval  of  such  board,  appoint  such  assistants 
as  may  be  necessary  to  properly  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Sec.  8.  That  the  board  of  directors  of  any  school  district  is  hereby 
authorized  to  carry  on  prevocational  and  vocational  instruction  in 
agricultural,  industrial,  hoime  economics,  and  commercial  subjects  and 
to  pay  the  expense  of  such  instruction  in  the  same  way  as  the  expenses 
for  other  subjects  in  the  public  schools  are  now  paid. 

Sec.  9.  That  the  board  of  directors  of  any  school  district  (having  a 
population  of  more  than  5,000  persons)  maintaining  a  school,  depart- 
ment or  class  receiving  the  benefit  of  Federal  moneys  under  the  provi- 
sions of  this  act  shall,  as  a  condition  of  approval  by  such  state  board 
as  herein  provided;  appoint  a  local  advisory  committee  for  vocational 
education  consisting  of  persons  of  experience  in  agriculture,  industry, 
home  economics  or  business  to  give  advice  and  assistance  to  such  board 
of  directors  in  the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  such  schools,  de- 
partments and  classes.  Such  state  board  may  require  the  board  of 
directors  of  any  school  district  that  maintains  such  an  approved  school, 
department  or  class  to  appoint  such  an  advisory  committee.  Such  per- 
sons of  experience  shall  serve  on  such  advisory  committee  without  com- 
pensation. 


Sec.  10.  That  such  board  is  hereby  authorized  to  make  such  expendi- 
ture for  the  actual  expenses  of  the  board  and  of  such  state  advisory 
committee  for  vocational  education  incurred  in  the  discharge  of  their 
duties  as  herein  provided,  for  the  salaries  of  assistants,  and  for  such 
office  and  other  expenses  as  in  the  judgment  of  such  board  are  neces- 
sary to  the  proper  administration  of  this  act,  and  there  is  hereby  ap- 
propriated out  of  any  funds  in  the  state  treasury  not  otherwise  appro- 
priated, the  sum  of  $2,500  per  annum  for  the  actual  expenses  of  said 
board  of  vocational  education  mentioned  in  this  section. 

Sec.  11.  That  such  board  shall  make  to  the  general  assembly  at  each 
biennial  session  thereof,  a  report  on  the  administration  of  this  act  and 
on  the  expenditures  of  money  under  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

Sec.  12.  That  all  acts  and  parts  of  acts  in  conflict  with  this  act  are 
hereby  repealed. 

FREE  TUITION  IN  HIGH  SCHOOL. 

CH.   156—37  G.  A. 
(Effective  by  publication  April   16  ,1917.) 

HOUSE  FILE  No.  70. 

Section  1.  That  the  law  as  it  appears  in  section  2733-la  Supple- 
mental Supplement  to  the  Code,  1915,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  re- 
pealed and  the  following  is  enacted  in  lieu  thereof:  Any  person  of 
school  age  who  is  a  resident  of  a  school  corporation  which  does  not 
offer  a  four-year  high  school  course  and  who  has  completed  the  course 
as  approved  by  the  department  of  public  instruction  for  such  corpora- 
tion shall  be  permitted  to  attend  any  public  high  school  or  county  high 
school  in  the  state  approved  in  like  manner  that  will  receive  him.  Any 
person  applying  for  adimdssion  to  any  high  school  under  the  provisions 
of  this  act  shall  present  the  officials  of  said  high  school  the  affidavit  of 
his  or  her  father,  mother,  guardian,  or  if  he  have  neither,  his  next 
friend  that  such  applicant  is  of  school  age  and  a  resident  of  a  school 
district  of  this  state,  specifying  the  district.  He  shall  also  present  a 
certificate  signed  by  the  county  superintendent  showing  proficiency  in 
the  common  school  branches,  reading,  orthography,  arithmetic,  phy- 
siology, grammar,  civics  of  Iowa,  geography,  United  States  history,  pen- 
manship and  music.  The  school  corporation  in  which  such  student  re- 
sides shall  pay  to  the  secretary  of  the  corporation  in  which  such  student 
shall  be  permitted  to  enter  a  tuition  fee  of  five  dollars  ($5.00)  per  month, 
but  in  districts  in  which  there  is  a  city  of  the  first  class  a  tuition  fee  of 
seven  dollars  ($7.00)  per  month  may  be  charged,  in  the  high  school  de- 
partment in  the  latter  corporation  during  the  time  he  so  attends,  not 
exceeding,  however,  a  total  period  of  four  school  years;  provided  that 
such  tuition  shall  in  no  case  exceed  the  average  cost  of  said  tuition  in 
such  high  school;  such  payment  to  be  made  out  of  the  teachers'  fund 
and  the  contingent  fund  or  out  of  the  general  fund  of  the  debtor  cor- 
poration and  such  tuition  fee  as  collected  by  the  secretary  shall  be 
turned  over  by  him  with  an  itemized  statement,  to  the  treasurer  of  the 


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school  funds  on  or  before  February  fifteenth  and  June  fifteenth  of  each 
year.  If  payment  is  refused  or  neglected  the  board  of  the  creditor  cor- 
poration shall  file  with  the  auditor  of  the  county  of  the  pupil's  residence 
a  statement  certified  by  its  president  specifying  the  amount  due  for 
tuition  and  for  contingent  expenses  respectively,  and  the  time  for  which 
the  same  is  claimed;  and  the  auditor  shall  transmit  to  the  county  treas- 
urer an  order  directing  such  treasurer  to  transfer  the  amount  of  such 
account  from  the  debtor  corporation  to  the  creditor  corporation,  and  the 
treasurer  shall  pay  the  same  in  accordance  therewith.  No  school  cor- 
poration situated  in  a  county  maintaining  a  county  high  school  shall  be 
required  to  pay  the  tuition  of  pupils  at  any  high  school  other  than 
such  county  high  school,  but  this  shall  not  apply  to  pupils  who,  while 
residing  at  hoime,  attend  some  high  school  other  than  that  of  the  school 
corporation  in  which  they  reside;  and  the  tuition  to  be  paid  by  school 
corporations  in  such  county  shall  be  three  and  one-half  dollars  ($3.50) 
per  pupil  per  month,  provided  that,  in  counties  having  a  high  school 
where  a  child  resides  at  home  and  attends  a  high  school  outside  the  dis- 
trict of  his  residence  other  than  the  county  high  school,  and  the  school 
corporation  where  the  child  resides  pays  the  tuition  for  such  child, 
and  at  the  end  of  the  school  year  it  is  found  that  less  pupils  have  at- 
tended the  county  high  school  from  the  district  where  such  child  re- 
sides than  was  entitled  to  attend  under  the  county  high  school  appor- 
tionment, then  and  in  that  case  the  school  corporation  where  such  child 
resides  shall  be  entitled  to  be  reimbursed  from  the  county  high  school 
funds  for  the  tuition  so  paid,  not  exceeding  in  the  aggregate  an  amount 
equal  to  the  taxes  contributed  by  such  district  to  said  county  high 
school  funds  for  the  tax  year  preceding,  fair  and  equitable  credit  being 
given  to  the  county  high  school  fund  for  pupils  actually  attending  said 
county  high  school  during  said  school  year  from  the  district  where  said 
child  resides.  The  county  superintendent  shall,  on  being  applied  to  for 
such  purpose,  determine  in  writing  the  amount  due  such  corporation 
from  the  county  high  school  fund,  and  furnish  such  corporation  with  a 
copy  of  such  finding.  Within  twenty  days  thereafter  such  corpora- 
tion may  appeal  to  the  district  court  from  such  finding  by  serving 
written  notice  on  the  county  superintendent  of  the  taking  of  such  ap- 
peal. On  the  service  of  said  notice  the  county  superintendent  shall  file 
a  copy  of  his  finding  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  district  court  and  the 
clerk  shall  docket  the  cause  without  fee.  The  matter  shall  be  tried  on 
appeal  as  in  equity  and  without  formal  pleading.  The  decision  of  the 
district  court  shall  be  final.  The  treasurer  shall,  upon  the  filing  with 
him  of  any  final  decision,  immediately  transfer  from  the  county  high 
school  funds  to  the  credit  of  the  corporation  entitled  to  the  same  the 
amount  directed  to  be  transferred. 

Sec.  2.  This  act,  being  deemed  of  immediate  importance,  shall  take 
effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  publication  in  the  Des  Moines 
Register,  a  newspaper  published  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  and  the  Council 
Bluffs  Nonpareil,  a  newspaper  published  in  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa. 


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FREE  TEXT  BOOKS— QUESTION  SUBMITTED. 

CH.   56—37  G.  A. 
HOUSE  FILE  No.  49. 

Section  1.  That  section  twenty-eight  hundred  and  thirty-six  (2836) 
of  the  code  be  amended  by  striking  out  in  the  second  line  thereof  fol- 
lowing the  word  "by"  the  words  "one-third  or  more  of  the  legal"  and  in- 
serting in  lieu  thereof  the  words  "ten  per  cent  of  the  qualified." 

PUBLIC  EVENING   SICHOOLS. 

CH.   97—37   G.  A. 
SENATE  FILE  No.  368. 

Section  1.  The  school  board  of  any  organized  school  district  within 
the  state  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  under  the  control  and 
supervision  of  the  city  or  county  superintendent  to  establish  and  nnlain- 
tain  public  evening  schools  as  a  branch  of  the  public  schools  when  said 
school  board  shall  deem  advisable  for  the  public  convenience  and  wel- 
fare, and  said  evening  schools  shall  be  available  to  all  persons  over  six- 
teen (16)  years  of  age,  who  from  any  cause  are  unable  to  attend  the 
public  day  schools  of  such  district. 

Sec.  2.  Whenever  in  any  organized  school  district  within  the  state 
there  shall  be  residing  ten  or  more  persons  over  sixteen  (16)  years  of 
age  who  desire  instruction  at  an  evening  school  in  the  common 
branches,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  school  board  of  such  organized 
school  district  to  establish  and  maintain  an  evening  school  for  such 
instruction  throughout  a  period  of  not  less  than  three  months  of  every 
school  year  and  for  not  less  than  two  hours  at  least  two  times  each 
week  during  the  term  of  such  evening  school,  which  school  shall  be 
under  the  control  and  supervision  of  the  city  or  county  superintendent. 

CONSOLIDATED  SCHOOLS— PETITION. 
CH.   432—37   G.  A. 

SENATE  FILE  No.  579. 

Be  it  Enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Iowa: 

Section  1.  That  section  twenty-seven  hundred  ninety-four-a  (2794-a) 
of  the  supplemental  supplement  to  the  code,  1915,  be  and  the  same  is 
hereby  amended  by  striking  therefrom  subdivision  "A"  thereof  and  in- 
serting the  following  in  lieu  thereof:  "When  a  petition  describing  the 
boundaries  of  contiguous  territory,  containing  not  less  than  sixteen 
sections  within  one  or  more  counties  is  signed  by  one-third  of  the  elec- 
tors residing  in  such  territory,  and  filed  with  the  county  superintendent, 
or  if  the  proposed  consolidated  district  is  made  up  of  a  part  of  two  or 
more  counties,  then  with  the  county  superintendent  of  the  county  in 
which  the  greatest  number  of  freeholders  in  the  proposed  district  reside. 

The  county  superintendent  with  -whom  such  petition  is  filed,  shall  fix 


—  10  — 

a  time  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  fifteen  days  thereafter  at  which 
time  written  objections  to  the  proposed  boundaries  of  the  proposed 
consolidated  district  may  be  filed  with  such  county  superintendent  by 
any  person  residing  or  owning  land  within  such  proposed  boundaries 
or  any  person  living  in  any  sub-district,  a  part  of  which  is  included  in 
such  proposed  consolidated  district.  Notice  of  the  time  and  place  shall 
be  given  in  a  newspaper  published  in  such  proposed  consolidated  dis- 
trict if  there  be  such  paper,  and  if  there  be  none,  then  such  notice  shall 
be  published  in  the  official  papers  of  the  county  in  which  the  county 
superintendent  giving  such  notice  shall  reside. 

At  the  time  and  place  so  fixed,  all  objections  to  said  proposed  bounda- 
ries then  filed  shall  be  heard  by  such  county  superintendent  upon  their 
merits,  after  which  hearing,  the  said  county  superintendent  shall  fix 
and  determine  the  boundaries  of  the  proposed  consolidated  district.  The 
ruling  upon  such  objections  and  fixing  of  boundaries  shall  be  made  in 
writing  within  five  days  after  the  same  have  been  finally  submitted. 
Any  person  having  filed  such  objections  and  being  aggrieved  by  the 
ruling  of  the  county  superintendent  may  appeal  therefrom  to  the  county 
board  of  education  within  five  days  after  the  ruling  is  filed  by  the 
county  superintendent  and  shall  serve  notice  on  said  county  superin- 
tendent. When  the  county  superintendent  is  notified  that  an  appeal  has 
been  taken  from  the  ruling,  such  county  superintendent  shall  within 
five  days  thereafter  file  with  the  county  board  of  education  all  of  the 
original  papers  together  with  the  transcript  of  the  proceedings  before 
the  county  superintendent.  When  the  time  for  taking  such  appeal  has 
expired,  the  county  board  of  education  shall  fix  a  time  not  later  than  ten 
days  thereafter  when  all  such  appeals  shall  be  heard ;  the  persons  taking 
such  appeal  shall  serve  notice  thereof  upon  the  persons  or  school  cor- 
porations in  interest  by  posting  notices  in  five  conspicuous  places  in 
said  proposed  district  giving  at  least  five  days'  notice  of  the  time  and 
place  where  such  appeal  will  be  heard.  The  county  board  of  education 
shall  determine  such  appeal  within  three  days  after  the  submission 
thereof,  which  decision  shall  be  final  as  to  said  boundaries. 

If  no  objections  be  filed,  or  if,  after  final  hearing,  the  objections  are 
not  sustained,  and  the  said  petition  is  approved,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
said  board  of  directors  within  ten  days,  to  call  an  election  in  the  pro- 
posed consolidated  district,  notice  of  which  shall  be  given  by  publica- 
tion in  one  issue  of  some  paper  published  in  the  proposed  consolidated 
district  if  one  is  so  published.  If  there  be  no  such  paper,  the  notice 
shall  be  published  in  one  issue  of  the  official  papers  of  the  county  or 
counties  in  which  the  proposed  consolidated  district  is  located,  at  which 
election  all  voters  residing  in  the  proposed  consolidated  district  shall  be 
entitled  to  vote  by  ballot  for  or  against  such  separate  organization. 

When  it  is  proposed  to  include  in  such  district  a  school  corporation 
containing  a  city,  town  or  village  with  a  population  of  one  hundred  or 
more  inhabitants,  the  voters  residing  upon  the  territory  outside  the 
limits  of  the  said  school  corporation  shall  vote  separately  upon  the 
proposition  to  create  such  new  district.  The  judges  of  said  election 
shall  provide  separate  ballot  boxes  in  which  shall  be  deposited  the  votes 


—  11  — 

cast  by  the  voters  from  their  respective  territory,  and  if  a  majority  of 
the  votes  cast  by  the  electors  residing  either  within  or  without  the 
limits  of  such  city,  town  or  village,  is  against  the  proposition  to  form 
a  consolidated  independent  corporation,  then  the  proposed  corporation 
shall  not  be  formed.  If  a  majority  of  the  votes  so  cast  in  each  territory 
shall  be  in  favor  of  such  independent  organization,  the  organization  of 
the  proposed  consolidated  independent  school  corporation  shall  be  com- 
pleted by  the  election  of  a  board  of  directors  for  said  school  corporation, 
as  provided  in  section  twenty-seven  hundred  ninety-five  of  the  code,  and 
when  so  organized  shall  not  be  reduced  to  less  than  sixteen  sections  un- 
less dissolved  as  provided  by  this  act. 

No  remaining  portion  of  any  school  corporation  from  which  territory 
is  taken  to  form  such  a  consolidated  independent  corporation  shall, 
after  the  change,  contain  less  than  four  government  sections,  which 
territory  shall  be  contiguous  and  so  situated  as  to  form  a  suitable  cor- 
poration. In  the  formation  of  such  consolidated  school  corporation  the 
boundary  lines  shall  conform  to  those  of  corporations  or  district  already 
established,  so  far  as  practicable,  and  in  case  the  boundary  of  such  dis- 
trict be  a  public  highway,  then  the  said  consolidated  district  may 
include  such  tracts  of  160  acres  or  less  as  are  contiguous  to  the 
said  highway  and  the  county  superintendent  after  a  full  and  fair 
hearing  gives  his  approval.  And  where  after  the  formation  of  such 
consolidated  school  corporation,  there  is  left  in  any  school  township  one 
or  more  pieces  of  territory  containing  four  or  more  government  sections, 
each  of  such  pieces  of  territory  shall  thereof  become  a  rural  independent 
school  corporation,  unless  two  or  more  sub^districts  remain  in  a  con- 
tiguous body,  in  which  event  such  remaining  portion  of  territory  shall 
constitute  a  school  township,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  officers  of 
the  former  school  township  to  call  an  election  in  each  of  such  re- 
maining pieces  of  territory  for  the  purpose  of  electing  school  officers  in 
the  manner  provided  by  law  for  the  election  of  officers  in  rural  inde- 
pendent school  and  school  township  organizations. 

All  costs  incurred  shall  be  paid  by  the  school  district  in  which  such 
consolidation  is  proposed." 

By  inserting  after  the  comma  in  line  six  (6)  of  sub-division  "e" 
thereof  the  following  "or  for  the  building  of  a  superintendent's  and 
teachers'  house"  and  also  by  striking  from  line  sixteen  (16)  of  said  sub- 
division "e"  the  word  "incorporated"  and  also  by  inserting  after  the 
comma  following  the  word  "village"  in  said  line  sixteen  (16)  the  fol- 
lowing "or  upon  lands  contiguous  to  such  limits." 

Sec.  2.  This  act  shall  not  affect,  or  be  construed  to  affect  action 
now  pending  in  the  formation  of  any  consolidated  school  district. 

PUBLIC  SCHOOL  CORPORATIONS  MAY  MAINTAIN  SCHOOLS  FOR 
BLIND  AND  DEAF. 

CH.   308—37  G.  A. 
SEXATE  FILE  No.  331. 

Section.  1.  Any  school  corporation  having  residing  therein  five  or 
'  more  blind  children  of  school  age  shall  have  authority  to  provide  one 


— 12  — 

or  more  instructors  to  provide  instruction  for  such  blind  pupils  sub- 
stantially equivalent  to  the  work  required  in  the  first  eight  grades  of 
the  graded  schools.  Such  course  of  instruction  and  instructors  to  be 
approved  by  the  superintendent  of  public  instruction. 

Sec.  2.  Any  school  corporation  having  residing  therein  five  or  more 
deaf  children  of  school  age  shall  have  authority  to  provide  one  or  more 
instructors  to  provide  instructions  for  such  deaf  pupils  substantially 
equivalent  to  the  work  required  in  the  first  eight  grades  of  the  graded 
schools.  Such  course  of  instruction  and  instructors  to  be  approved  by 
the  superintendent  of  public  instruction. 

Sec.  3.  State  aid,  in  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars  per  year  for  each 
such  blind  or  deaf  pupil  receiving  instruction  in  any  such  school  cor- 
poration, is  hereby  appropriated  out  of  any  moneys  in  the  state  treasury 
not  otherwise  appropriated,  the  same  to  be  paid  to  the  treasurer  of  the 
school  corporation  at  the  end  of  each  school  year;  provided,  however, 
that  to  be  entitled  to  such  state  aid  such  instruction  shall  be  given  for  a 
period  of  at  least  ten  school  months  each  year. 

Sec.  4.  To  be  entitled  to  such  state  aid  the  courses  and  methods  of 
instruction  must  comply  with  such  requirements  as  may  be  outlined  by 
the  superintendent  of  public  instruction  and  shall  include  every  modern 
method  of  instruction  known  to  the  professions. 

SCHOOL  FUNDING  BONDS, 
OH.  262—37   G.  A. 

(Effective  by  publication  May  1,  1917) 
SENATE  FILE  No.  325. 

Section  1.  That  the  law  appearing  as  section  2812-c  of  the  supple- 
ment to  the  code,  1913,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  repealed  and  the  fol- 
lowing enacted  in  lieu  thereof: 

"For  the  purpose  of  providing  for  the  payment  of  any  indebtedness  of 
any  school  corporation  represented  by  judgments  or  bonds,  the  board  of 
directors  of  such  school  corporation  at  any  time  or  times  may  provide 
by  resolution  for  the  issuance  of  bonds  of  such  school  corporation  to  be 
known  as  funding  or  refunding  bonds.  The  proceeds  derived  from  the 
negotiation  of  such  funding  or  refunding  bonds  shall  be  applied  in  pay- 
ment of  such  indebtedness ;  or  said  funding  bonds  or  refunding  bonds 
may  be  issued  in  exchange  for  the  evidence  of  such  indebtedness,  par 
for  par." 

Sec.  2.  All  bonds  which  have  been  heretofore  issued  under  chapter 
one  hundred  fifty-two  (152)  of  the  laws  of  the  thirty-second  (32d)  gen- 
eral assembly  of  Iowa  and  which  are  subject  to  the  objection  that  they 
were  issued  to  refund  bonds  which  has  been  issued  subsequent  to  the 
adoption  of  said  chapter  one  hundred  fifty-two  (152),  are  hereby  legal- 
ized in  respect  to  said  objection,  the  same  in  effect  as  if  the  bonds  re- 
funded had  been  issued  prior  to  the  adoption  of  said  chapter  one  hun- 
dred fifty-two  (152). 

(Sec.  3.    Nothing  in  this  act  shall  affect  any  pending  litigation. 

Sec.  4.  This  act,  being  deemed  of  immediate  importance,  shall  take 
effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  publication  in  the  Des  Moines 


—  13  — 

Register  and  in  the  Des  Moines  Capital,  newspapers  published  at  Des 
Homes,  Iowa. 

RETIREMENT  FUND. 

CH.   387—37  G.  A. 
SENATE  FILE  No.  298. 

Section  1.  'Any  independent  school  district  having  a  population  of 
seventy-five  thousand  (75,000)  or  more  <miay  establish  a  pension  and 
annuity  retirement  system  for  the  public  school  teachers  of  such 
district. 

Sec.  2.  The  fund  for  such  retirement  system  shall  be  created  by  an 
annual  tax  not  exceeding  two-tenths  (2/10)  of  a  mill  on  the  dollar,  by 
an  assessment  of  the  teachers  not  exceeding  one  per  cent  of  their  sal- 
aries in  any  one  year,  and  by  the  interest  on  any  permanent  fund  which 
may  be  created  by  gift,  bequest  or  otherwise. 

Sec.  3.  The  board  of  directors  of  the  independent  school  district 
shall  constitute  the  board  of  trustees  and  shall  formulate  the  plan  of  the 
retirement;  and  shall  make  necessary  rules  and  regulations  for  the 
operation  of  said  retirement  system. 

TEACHING  OF  AGRICULTURE,  MANUAL,  TRAINING  AND  DOMES- 
TIC SCIENCE  IN  RURAL  SCHOOLS. 

CH.   319—37  G.  A. 
SENATE  FILF  No.  238. 

Section  1.  That  the  law  as  it  appears  in  section  twenty-seven  hun- 
dred seventy-five-a  (2775-a)  of  the  supplemental  supplement  to  the  code, 
1915,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  by  adding  after  the  period  at 
the  end  of  said  sections  the  following: 

Provided,  however,  that  nothing  in  this  section  shall  prevent  the 
board  of  directors  from  dispensing  with  the  teaching  of  said  subjects  in 
rural  schools  at  its  discretion. 

SCHOOL  HOUSE  SITES— ACQUISITION. 

CH.    26—37    G.   A. 

(Effective  by  publication  March  12.  1917.) 
SEXATE  FILE  No.  63. 

Section  1.  That  section  two  thousand  eight  hundred  and  fourteen 
(2814)  of  the  supplement  to  the  code,  1913,  be  and^the  same  is  hereby 
repealed  and  the  following  enacted  as  a  substitute  therefor: 

Any  school  corporation  may  take  and  hold  so  much  real  estate  as 
may  be  required  for  school  house  sites,  for  the  location  or  construction 
thereon  of  school  houses,  and  the  convenient  use  thereof,  but  not  to  ex- 
ceed two  acres  exclusive  of  public  highway,  except  in  a  city,  town  or 
village  it  may  include  two  blocks  exclusive  of  the  street  or  highway  as 
the  case  may  be,  for  any  one  site,  and  may  <uso  take  and  hold  such 
additional  real  estate,  not  exceeding  five  acres  as  may  be  required  for 
school  playground  or  other  purposes  for  each  such  site,  or  in  districts 
consolidated  under  the  provisions  of  section  two  thousand  seven  hun- 


—  14  — 

dred  ninety-four-a  (2794-a)  of  the  supplemetnal  supplement  to  the  code, 
1915,  may  take  and  hold  not  to  exceed  ten  acres,  for  any  one  site,  such 
additional  ground  may  be  acquired  by  donation,  which  site  must  be 
upon  some  public  road  already  established  or  procured  by  the  board  of 
directors  and  shall,  except  in  cities,  towns  or  villages,  be  at  least  thirty 
rods  from  the  residence  of  any  owner  who  objects  to  its  being  placed 
nearer,  and  not  in  any  public  park. 

Sec.  2.  That  section  two  thousand  eight  hundred  fifteen  (2815)  of 
the  code  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  repealed  and  the  following  enacted 
as  a  substitute  therefor: 

If  the  owner  of  any  of  the  real  estate  desired  for  a  school  house  site 
or  sites,  or  a  public  road  thereto,  or  for  school  play  grounds  or  other 
purposes  for  which  any  school  corporation  is,  or  may  be  authrized  to 
take  and  hold  real  estate,  refuses  or  neglects  to  convey  the  same,  or  is 
deceased,  or  is  unknown  or  cannot  be  found,  or  if  in  the  judgment  of 
the  board  of  directors  of  said  school  corporation  they  cannot  agree  with 
such  owner,  the  county  superintendent  of  the  county  in  which  said 
school  corporation  is  located  shall,  upon  the  application  of  either  party 
in  interest,  appoint  three  freeholders  of  said  county  not  interested  in 
the  same  or  a  like  question,  as  referees,  who  shall  take  and  subscribe 
an  oath  to  the  effect  that  they  will  faithfully  and  impartially  discharge 
the  duties  laid  upon  them.  The  county  superintendent  shall  give  notice 
of  the  time  and  place  of  making  the  assessments  of  damages  to  the 
owner  of  such  real  estate  as  shown  by  the  transfer  books  in  the  office  of 
the  county  auditor  of  such  county,  and  the  person  in  possession  thereof, 
or,  if  such  owner  as  so  shown  by  such  transfer  book  is  deceased,  then 
such  notice  shall  be  given  to  the  person  or  persons  in  possession  of  such 
real  estate  and  to  the  owners  of  the  beneficial  interest  therein,  such 
notice  in  either  event  to  be  given  for  the  same  length  of  time  and  in  the 
same  manner  as  for  the  commencement  of  actions  in  the  district  court. 
Such  referees  shall  inspect  the  grounds  proposed  to  be  taken,  fix  the 
damage  sustained  as  near  as  may  be  on  the  basis  of  the  value  of  the  real 
estate  so  appropriated,  and  report  in  writing  to  the  county  superinten- 
dent their  doings  and  findings,  which  report  shall  be  filed  and  preserved 
in  his  office;  and  upon  the  amount  found  by  the  referees  being  deposited 
with  the  county  treasurer,  for  the  use  of  such  owner  or  owners,  posses- 
sion may  at  once  be  taken  of  such  real  estate  and  the  necessary  build- 
ings erected  and  occupied.  From  the  assessment  so  made  either  party 
may  appeal  to  the  district  court  by  giving  notice  thereof  as  in  case  of 
taking  private  property  for  works  of  internal  improvement  within  ten 
days. after  receiving  notice  of  the  award  made.  If  such  appeal  is  not 
taken,  the  assessment  shall  be  final;  if  taken,  the  board  may  proceed 
with  the  construction  of  improvements,  and  may  take  possession  of  such 
real  estate,  if  the  deposit  hereinbefore  provided  has  been  or  shall  be 
made.  Such  proceedings  shall  be  void  if  the  school  corporation  fails  to 
deposit  the  amount  due  as  hereinbefore  provided  within  sixty  days  from 
and  after  the  final  determination  of  the  proceedings  upon  appeal  or 
otherwise.  Upon  such  appeal  the  school  corporation  shall  not  be  liable 


—  15  — 

for  costs  unless  the  owner  shall  be  allowed  a  greater  sum  than  given  by 
the  referees;  all  costs  of  making  the  referees'  assessment  to  be  paid  by 
the  school  corporation. 

Sec.  3.  This  act  being  deemed  of  immediate  importance,  shall  take 
effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  publication  in  the  Des  Moines 
Register  and  the  Des  Moines  Daily  ^Capital,  newspapers  published  in  Des 
Moines,  Iowa. 

INCREASING    MEMBERSHIP    OF    EDUCATIONAL    BOARD    OF 
EXAMINERS. 

CH.  340—37  G.  A. 
HOUSE  FILE  No.  513. 

Section  1.  That  section  twenty-six  hundred  twenty-eight  (2628)  of 
the  code  be  and  the  same  is  herreby  amended  by  striking  from  line 
three  (3)  thereof  the  following:  "principal  of  the  normal  school,"  and 
by  inserting  in  lieu  thereof  the  following:  "president  of  the  Iowa  State 
Teachers'  College,  president  of  the  Iowa  State  College  of  Agriculture 
and  Mechanic  Arts." 

ELECTION   PRECINCTS— REGISTRATION. 
CH.   225—37   G.  A. 

HOUSE  FILE  No.  405. 

•  Section  1.  That  section  two  thousand  seven  hundred  fifty-five  (2755) 
supplement  to  the  code,  1913,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  repealed  and 
the  following  enacted  in  lieu  thereof: 

Each  school  corporation  having  five  thousand  or  more  inhabitants 
may  be  divided  into  such  number  of  precincts  as  the  board  of  directors 
shall  determine,  in  each  of  which  a  poll  shall  be  held  at  a  convenient 
place,  fixed  by  the  board  of  directors,  for  the  reception  of  the  ballots 
of  voters  residing  in  such  precinct.  The  clerk  of  the  city  shall  furnish 
to  the  board  of  directors  the  last  registers  of  elections,  and  these  regis- 
ters shall  be  used  at  and  have  the  same  force  and  effect  at  school  elec- 
tions held  under  this  section  in  reception  of  votes  thereat,  as  at  general 
elections.  The  board  of  directors  of  such  school  corporation,  on  or  be- 
fore the  last  Monday  preceding  such  election  shall  appoint  two  suitable 
persons  to  be  registrars  in  each  of  the  election  precincts  of  such  school 
corporation  for  the  registration  of  voters  therein,  who  shall  have  the 
same  qualification  as  registrars  appointed  for  general  elections  and  shall 
qualify  in  the  same  manner,  and  receive  the  same  compensation  to  be 
paid  by  the  school  corporation.  The  registrars  shall  -meet  on  the  day  of 
the  election  at  the  voting  place  in  the  precinct  in  which  they  have  been 
appointed  and  shall  hold  continuous  session  from  nine  o'clock  in  the 
forenoon  until  seven  o'clock  in  the  afternoon.  Any  person  claiming  to 
be  a  voter,  and  who  is  not  already  registered  in  the  proper  precinct,  may 
appear  before  them  in  the  election  precinct  where  he  claims  he  is  en- 
titled to  vote  and  make  and  subscribe  under  oath  a  statement  in  the 


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registry  book,  which  oath  and  statement  shall  be  of  the  same  general 
character  as  that  prescribed  by  section  ten  hundred  seventy-seven  of  the 
code,  and  shall  thereupon  be  granted  a  certificate  of  registration. 
Nothing  in  this  section  shall  be  construed  to  proihbit  women  from 
voting  at  all  elections  at  which  they  are  entitled  to  vote.  The  secretary 
must  post  a  notice  of  the  meeting  in  a  public  place  in  each  precinct 
at  least  ten  days  before  the  meeting,  and  by  publication  once  each  week 
for  two  consecutive  weeks  preceding  the  same  in  some  newspaper,  pub- 
lished in  the  corporation,  such  notice  to  state  the  time,  respective  voting 
precincts,  and  the  polling  place  in  each  precinct,  and  also  to  specify 
what  questions  authorized  by  law,  in  addition  to  the  election  of  director 
or  directors,  shall  be  voted  upon  and  determined  by  the  voters  of  the 
several  precincits. 

NORMAL  TRAINING  EXAMINATIONS   IN  PRIVATE   OR  DENOMI- 
NATIONAL, SCHOOLS. 

CH.   346—37  G.  A. 

HOUSE  FILE  No.  336. 

Section  1.  That  section  twenty-six  hundred  thirty-four-b  6  (2634-b  6), 
supplement  to  the  code,  1913,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  by 
inserting  after  the  word  "school"  in  the  fourth  line,  the  words,  "private, 
and  denominational  school";  also,  in  the  eighth  line  after  the  word 
"school"  insert  the  words  "private,  and  denominational  school." 

SCHOOL  TAXES— AMOUNT  BOARDS  MAY  LEVY. 
CH.    32—37    G.   A. 

HOUSE  FILE  No.  194 

Section  1.  That  the  law  as  it  appears  in  section  2806,  supplement  to 
the  code,  1913,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  by  striking  from  line 
twelve  of  said  section  the  words  "two  hundred  seventy"  and  inserting 
in  lieu  thereof  the  words  "four  hundred  fifty." 

FRATERNITIES  PROHIBITED  IN  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 

CH.  158—37  G.  A, 
HOUSE  FILE  No.  168. 

Section  1.  That  the  law  as  it  appears  in  section  twenty-seven  hun- 
dred eighty-two-a  (2782-a),  supplement  to  the  code,  1913,  be  and  the 
same  is  hereby  amended  by  striking  from  line  five  (5)  of  said  section 
the  word  "Secret." 


—  17—  :-.\^    i' vK'AiiA 

USE  OF  SCHOOL  HOUSES  AND  GROUNDS  FOR  PUBLIC  PURPOSES. 

CH.   229—37   G.   A. 
HOUSE  FILE  No.  167. 

Section  1.  The  board  of  directors  of  any  school  corporation  may 
authorize  the  use  of  any  school  house  and  its  grounds  within  such  cor- 
poration and  not  within  the  limits  of  a  city  or  town  for  the  purpose  of 
meetings  of  granges,  lodges,  agricultural  societies  and  similar  rural  se- 
cret orders  and  societies  and  for  election  purposes;  such  use  to  be  for 
such  compensation  and  upon  such  terms  and  conditions  as  may  be  fixed 
by  said  board  for  the  proper  protection  of  the  school  house  and  the  prop- 
erty belonging  therein,  including  that  of  pupils.  Any  compensation  for 
such  use  shall  be  paid  into  the  contingent  fund  and  be  expended  in  the 
upkeep  and  repair  of  such  school  property,  and  in  purchasing  supplies 
therefor.  Provided,  however,  that  if  at  any  time  the  voters  of  such 
corporation  at  any  annual  meeting  forbid  such  use  of  any  such  school 
house  or  grounds,  the  board  shall  not  thereafter  permit  such  use  until 
the  action  of  such  voters  shall  have  been  rescinded  by  the  voters  at 
an  annual  meeting  called  for  that  purpose. 

PURCHASE  OF  ABANDONED  PRIVATE  SCHOOL  GROUNDS. 

CH.   400—37  G.  A. 
SENATE  FILE  No.  424. 

That  section  twenty-eight  hundred  and  fourteen  (2814)  of  the  sup- 
plement to  the  code,  1913,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby  amended  by 
adding  thereto  the  following  as  section  twenty-eight  hundred  and  four- 
teen-b  (2814-b). 

Any  school  corporation  in  which  there  was  organized  and  founded 
prior  to  the  year  1902  a  university  with  not  to  exceed  forty  acres  of 
land  upon  which  a  school  building  or  buildings  have  been  erected  which 
could  be  used  for  public  school  purposes,  and  said  university  did  prior 
to  the  year  1914  abandon  said  school  and  place  its  property  upon  the 
market  and  the  same  is  now  owned  by  a  church  organization,  said  school 
corporation  may  purchase  said  land  and  buildings  where  the  same  are 
located  in  a  city  of  the  first  class,  provided  the  owner  of  said  land  and 
buildings  and  the  school  corporation  can  agree  as  to  the  terms  of  sale 
and  purchase  price  thereof.  Said  land  and  buildings,  when  so  pur- 
chased, may  be  used  for  grade  or  high  school  purposes,  school  site  or 
sites,  play  grounds,  athletic  field,  demonstration  grounds,  agricultural 
experiment  grounds  and  other  educational  or  school  purposes. 


—  18  — 

.-  .. 

COUNTY   SUPERINTENDENT— DEPUTY. 

CH.   317—37  G.  A. 
SENATE  FILE  No.  168. 

That  section  2734-b,  supplement  to  the  code,  1913,  be  amended  by 
adding  the  word  "deputy"  in  the  twentieth  line  of  said  section  the 
words  "with  the  approval  of  the  board  of  supervisors  entered  of  record." 

ELECTION   PRECINCTS— REGISTRATION. 

CH.  334—37  G.  A. 
HOUSE  FILE  No.  622. 

That  section  twenty-seven  hundred  fifty-five  (2755),  supplement  to  the 
code,  1913,  be  amended  by  adding  after  the  last  word  in  said  section 
the  following: 

"No  register  shall  be  prepared  nor  shall  registration  be  required  in 
any  school  corporation  containing  a  city  in  which  registration  is  not 
required  at  the  general  or  city  elections." 

MARGINAL  RELEASE  OF  SCHOOL  FUND  MORTGAGES. 

CH.   339—37   G.  A. 
HOUSB  FILE  No.  547. 

Section  1.  That  the  release  or  satisfaction  of  any  school  fund 
mortgage  entered  on  the  margin  of  the  record  of  such  mortgage  by  the 
auditor  of  the  county  prior  to  July  4,  1894,  be  and  the  same  is  hereby 
legalized  and  given  the  same  force  and  effect  as  though  such  auditor 
had  had  at  the  time  of  entering  such  release  or  satisfaction  the  same 
power  thereafter  conferred  upon  him  by  chapter  fifty-three  (53)  of  the 
acts  of  the  twenty-fifth  general  assembly. 


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